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How is Big Data Transforming Your 80/20 Analytics?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, even organizations where top management keeps their eyes glued to KPI-driven dashboards have trouble agreeing on what their Top Ten Most Important Customer/Client 80/20 analytics should be. That’s not good because Big Data promises to redefine the fundamentals of the 80/20 rule. From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI). In general, companies don’t devote enough time to thinking about value capture.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

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